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ORA-1840 [message #394315] Thu, 26 March 2009 07:59 Go to next message
CRISAX
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Hello,I have a select with case when which will have to return a date, but the format is a number. Then I use that field for data calculation. what can I do to define it as data type field?
Re: ORA-01840: [message #394321 is a reply to message #394315] Thu, 26 March 2009 08:07 Go to previous messageGo to next message
JRowbottom
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Can you show us some code?

I'd guess that you want the TO_DATE function.
Re: ORA-01840: [message #394329 is a reply to message #394315] Thu, 26 March 2009 08:22 Go to previous message
deb.b
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Use TO_DATE function (as per your requirement)
Thanks
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